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Old 02-18-2008 | 04:18 PM
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I better find a job soon or I am going to have cast bullet coming out my ass, I have casted almost 100 bullets in the last 2 days, just out of boredum. I am ready to get another mold, I think a round ball would be nice or a another 429 or 452 lol,



I need to get some green sabot lol
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Old 02-18-2008 | 04:24 PM
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Those look good. What size/grain are they?
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Old 02-18-2008 | 04:31 PM
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lee 429 214 swc, only mold I could find local that fit the sabots I had on hand, now I need to get some because I got more bullets then sabots, I am playing with the idea of an 457 mold and mmp orange and doing an 400+ grain. I still done have anywhere I can get softer lead then wheelwight, mold for conicals are not in play (yet)
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Old 02-18-2008 | 05:14 PM
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You can use that WW for conicals. Tom.
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Old 02-18-2008 | 05:15 PM
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Sorry for the second post. I just wanted to add that you shouldonly use the WW in a modern firearm. "THEY" say it is bad in an antique firearm. But I am not sure who "THEY" are. I shoot WW in my Lyman flintlock, with no problem. Tom.
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Old 02-18-2008 | 05:59 PM
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Hey i just caught something... Only 100 bullets in 2 days? You taking naps after each bullet you mold?
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Old 02-18-2008 | 06:06 PM
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FG: no naps, half hour per day not counting heating, remember, I am still new at this.

tom: I keep reading conical need to be made out of "pure" lead, but I seen somewhere that WW are just little harder then "pure" lead, but not much
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Old 02-18-2008 | 06:08 PM
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Those are really nice bullets.
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Old 02-18-2008 | 06:09 PM
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You should be fine with the WW's. I've molded roundballs before with plenty of WW's. I just prefer using the recovered powerbelt lead due to the softness of it.
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Old 02-18-2008 | 06:23 PM
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When we were shootin the cap and ball revolvers.thats all we ever
made our balls from(W W) never seem to have a problem..
I used them in my long guns as well...Good work Corey
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